 ... have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his...  Time's Telescope - Page 601830Full view - About this book
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...a reproach ; but I will affirm, that the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insulte.... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch...deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from •nsult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed iway without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...PITT'S manner of speaking. As soon as Mr. WALPOLE sat down, Mr. PITT got up »nd replied as above. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences...and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, | ia surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt1, i and deserves not that his grey head1 j... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after havino' seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and 2 " Certainly his (Henry the Seventh's) times for good commonwealth's... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement', and vice*appears to prevail', when the passions' have subsided*-. The...abhorrence' or contempt?-, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more is he** to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced**—in... | |
 | Salem Town - 1858 - 418 pages
...without improvement, and vice »ppear to prevail when the passions have subsided. 2. The wretch wno, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred who, as he has advanced... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...follies cease with their youth ; and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. pears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch...who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errori continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added ul> stinacy to stupidity, is surely... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed »way without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having Been the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch,...errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has obly added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves... | |
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